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2017 Ranked #18,760

Ink Monsters

This card-driven drawing game has players guide a magic pen, collect monsters, and use their abilities for scoring advantages. Movement choices can secure helpful creatures or leave opponents with negative effects, making placement a quiet form of sabotage.

Card Game Open Drafting Set Collection

Players

2-6

Play time

20-30 min

Age

6+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

5.97

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.6/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Take control of a magic pen and draw the cutest monsters to bring them to life. Collect each monster to use their special abilities each round or affect your final score.

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Take control of a magic pen and draw the cutest monsters to bring them to life. Collect each monster to use their special abilities each round or affect your final score. In Ink Monsters, you use movement cards to influence where the pen is placed. Sometimes you'll move to get the best cards for yourself, and at other times you'll try to set up your opponents to draw monsters with negative effects. The gameplay mechanisms are simple, but the strategy goes much deeper the more you learn how different monsters interact with each other.

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All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
3–4
Play time
20–30 min
Age
6+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Daryl Andrews Erica Bouyouris

Artists

1
Cara Curley

Publishers

1
Albino Dragon